The Fishing Rod is a tool used to catch fish. You can either buy one from Haldor the trader or find one by a frozen lake in the Frost Caves dungeon.
How to Get
There are two main ways to get a Fishing Rod:
You can buy it from Haldor the NPC trader for 350 Coins
You can find one inside the rare frozen lake room in the Frost Caves dungeons
Buying from Haldor
Haldor is an NPC trader you can find in the Black Forest biome. We have a detailed guide for how to find Haldor. But in short, you find him in the Black Forest biome, but he can’t spawn too close to your starting location in the Meadows. When you approach Haldor’s location, a white bag symbol will appear on your map.
Once you reach Haldor, interact with him and you’ll open his shop. He sells some very useful items. Among them, you’ll find the Fishing Rod, priced at 350 Coins. You can either find Coins in chests while exploring the world or as drops from certain monsters. You can also sell Haldor your precious gems like Amber and Rubies to get more Coins.
Even if you decide that 350 Coins for a Fishing Rod is too expensive and choose to instead go look for a free one, you should purchase some of the Fishing Bait Haldor is selling. You get 20 for 10 Coins, and you’ll need a lot of it once you actually get down to fishing.
Haldor’s BagFishing Rod in Haldor’s shopHaldor also sells Bait
Finding Inside Frost Caves
If you’re not willing to part with 350 Coins for a Fishing Rod, you can instead try to find a free one. For that, you’ll need to explore the Frost Caves dungeons in the Mountain biome. Each of these dungeons has a small chance to spawn a room with a frozen lake. The spawn is very rare, so you might be searching for that lake a while.
When you do find the right dungeon, you’ll see a crumbling staircase leading down. Descend, and you’ll find yourself in a wide-open room. You’ll be attacked by Stone Golems there, but after you deal with them, you’ll see a campfire with a skeleton and a runed stone nearby. The stone tells the story of an adventurer who came down into the cave and then couldn’t get out. By that stone, you’ll find a Fishing Rod.
A Frost Caves dungeonA path to the frozen lakeThe frozen lake chamber
With the Fishing Rod in your inventory, you’ll need to do what the skeletal adventurer wasn’t able to – go back up the same crumbling staircase. This will require some persistence and platforming, but provided you have some stamina-boosting foods, it shouldn’t be much of a challenge.
Sad adventurer’s storyThe free Fishing Rod
Helpful Tips
Even though the Fishing Rod has combat-related stats like damage, we haven’t been able to use it to attack
The Fishing Rod doesn’t have quality levels or durability, so you can use it without having to worry about upgrades or repairs
Even though the Fishing Rod uses Fishing Bait as ammo, you don’t need to manually equip it – using the rod automatically equips Fishing Bait in your inventory. Just make sure it’s the right type for the fish you’re looking to catch
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